WORST. BANNER. PLACEMENT. EVER!!

[Career Prole]

From the Marine Corps Times yesterday...

Corps sacks three commanders
Battalion under investigation in deaths of 15 Iraqi civilians

By Gidget Fuentes and John Hoellwarth
Times staff writers

Three officers — including an infantry battalion commander and two of his company commanders — were fired April 7 for “lack of confidence,” a Corps spokesman said. Relieved were Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who commanded the Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines; India Company commander Capt. James Kimber; and Kilo Company commander Capt. Luke McConnell, said 2nd Lt. Lawton King, a spokesman for 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton.

Officials previously have confirmed that Chessani’s battalion was under investigation for an alleged Nov. 19 rampage by the battalion’s Kilo Company Marines in the Iraqi city of Haditha that left 15 civilians dead, including seven women and three children.

The civilian deaths occurred after a roadside bomb killed one of 3/1’s Marines during a combat patrol.

The decision to relieve the three officers was made by Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski, 1st Marine Division commander, “due to lack of confidence in their leadership abilities stemming from their performance during a recent deployment to Iraq,” King said...

At the top of the page is the following banner:





I rest my case.

[TomInTib]

1. They were liberatin' them Iraqis real good.

Nice catch.

[Career Prole]

4. Glad I did a screen cap...they've changed it already! n/t

[TomInTib]

7. They're probably monitoring DU n/t

[Career Prole]

10. Certainly makes you wonder, though a wheelchair ad is only

incrementally better.

Edited out my screen cap because Roland99's was better.

[Roland99]

9. Still there. But, this news is actually very interesting. An admission??

[Career Prole]

11. This was actually the first I saw this story about the officers.

And I found it through the ace newshounds at Iraq Coalition Casualties.

[TomInTib]

12. This is probably just to assuage the Iraqis. The Marines will be

shipped back to the States and decommissioned. Note they are all Junior Officers.

[Redstone]

2. That is truly fucking revolting. Good find.

Redstone

[flamingyouth]

3. April 9 is my dad's birthday

I'll be sure to point that milestone out to him tomorrow. He'll be so honored.

[Career Prole]

5. Happy B'Day to him!

Hey! Is anyone marketing Dim Son piñatas yet?

[Rick Myers]

8. Happy Birthday to your Dad, FY!!!

Hope everything is wonderful with you!!!

[Fenris]

13. He'll be so proud.

[TahitiNut]

14. Happy birthday, flamingdad!

(I never know how to dress.)

[Career Prole]

15. I thought it was an established thing, this "Iraq Liberation Day"...

...but it's no such thing!

From the Moonie Times last week

Families of American troops are asking national newspapers and television news networks not to ignore the three-year anniversary Sunday of the day Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad and his statue was toppled.
"We are keenly aware that the national media is drawn towards covering milestones and we respectfully request that you not ignore this historic date," Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission wrote to four news network presidents, National Public Radio and four national newspapers.

<snip>

The Republican state senator from Iowa said Egyptian and Afghan elections and Syria's withdrawal of troops in Lebanon "all started with Iraqi liberation day, April 9."
Letters were sent to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as to ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC.
Two weeks ago, a woman raised the issue of press bias directly to President Bush.
At a town-hall forum in Wheeling, W.Va., Gayle Taylor said her husband had returned from his job as a military broadcast journalist in Iraq with footage of progress being made there, but said television networks "just want to focus on some more bloodshed, or they just want to focus on how they don't agree with you and what you're doing."

Un-friggin'-believable. They didn't even pick a halfway reasonable date. They're picking the day the statue got knocked down...three weeks before chimpy's ridiculous declaration of "Mission Accomplished"!

[flamingyouth]

17. God, what a load of horse shit

Really unbelievable.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. That is a wee bit ironic.

Somebody should show the Secretary of Defense, but he'd probably miss the irony.

[shenmue]

16. Aw jeez

More jarring than the pres himself's inept sloganeering incidents.

[ReverendDeuce]

18. That banner ad is WH psy-ops...

Really. Think about it. Who would run an ad like that?